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Lawyers for Survivors and their Families On September 14, 2023, Ventura County District Attorney Erik Nasarenko announced that Rodolfo Martinez-Guevara, a priest in the Archdioceses of Los Angeles, was charged with felony possession of child pornography.  Martinez-Guevara allegedly possessed over 600 images of child sexual abuse material – including images and videos of children under…

If you are a parent and allow another individual or entity to take care of your child, the last thing you expect is that your child will sustain any type of abuse or neglect. Unfortunately, there are wrongdoers who fail to uphold their duty of care to a child. Here, we want to discuss the…

On November 10, 2020, the Vatican released a 449-page report detailing the rise through the ranks of the Catholic church by Theodore E. McCarrick, a now resigned cardinal who was dismissed from the clergy in 2019, despite Pope John Paul II’s knowledge of allegations of sexual abuse against McCarrick. The report highlights the lengths that…

Parents and guardians of a child who has been sexually abused will experience a range of emotions, and they are often left not knowing how to properly help their child. However, there are steps that need to be taken in order to ensure that child sexual abuse survivors recover from what happened to them. According…

Child sexual abuse is a major problem in the United States. According to the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN), child protective services substantiates, or finds evidence of, a claim of child sexual abuse reported every 73 seconds. The statistics related to child sexual abuse in the United States are heartbreaking. Parents who discover…

Sexual abuse of children is abhorrent, and parents and guardians must take every step they can to protect children from predators. While the internet has made it easier to connect to information and stay in contact with our loved ones and friends, it is also made it possible for perpetrators sexual abuse to use the…